Learning Sources Quotes

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

The children were singing beer commercials. If they could learn from beer commercials why can't they learn 1,2, 3 and more.

I think you can learn a lot from primary sources. 'The Penguin Book of Witches,' which is edited by novelist Katherine Howe, is a wonderful compilation of primary sources about witchcraft.

We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

I don't know if I trust entertainment to teach anyone anything.

How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest

It's funny how sometimes you learn things off the Internet before they're actually told to you.

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies.

I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers.

I learned everything, right or wrong, about honor and love, all those things, when I was a kid watching movies. I learned as much there as I did from my parents or my schooling or anything else.

I probably learned more about Marion Barry listening to Chris Rock than I did reading a headline.

Collecting cookbooks is still my biggest passion! Believe it or not, I actually got the biggest form of inspiration from my kids. My kids do everything online. They would have their tablets in front of them watching hours upon hours of online videos. I came to understand that these videos were actually teaching my kids lots of different forms of information.